The use in IR of governmentality and its attendant notions of biop
Trade Review
'Marc Doucet’s book, Reforming 21st Century Peacekeeping Operations: Governmentalities of Security, Protection, and Police, drawing from the work of Michel Foucault, theorizes about the relationship between the governmental rationality and the UNPKO reform agenda in recent decades. He chooses two specific cases: the SSR model and the UNSC Protection of Civilians (PoC). In one of the chapters entitled Governmentality, sovereign power, and contemporary international peacekeeping operations, Doucet explores key Foucauldian notions, like governmentality, population, biopower and sovereign power.'
Ricardo Oliveira dos Santos, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 2019
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Reforming 21st-century peacekeeping operations: governmentalities of security, protection, and police
Chapter 2: Governmentality, sovereign Power, and contemporary international peacekeeping operations
Introduction
The mentality of government
Governmentalizing the state
Sovereign power, biopower, and state sovereignty
Sovereign power and states of emergency
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Police, security, and resilience
Introduction
International police and international policing
Police as a figuration of sovereign power
Police as regulation mania
Security and police
The police-security project of resilience
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Local ownership: the police-security project of security sector reform (SSR)
Introduction
Security Sector Reform (SSR): a summary
The governmentality of SSR
Operationalizing resilience through local ownership
Conclusion
Chapter 5: The UN’s protection of civilians agenda
Introduction
Civilis
Civilis legalis
The new lawfare of protecting civilians
The UN’s PoC agenda
Rationalizing protection at its point of application
The necropolitics of protection
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Conclusion: reforming UN peacekeeping operations: security, protection, and police
